AMC Hires Former FOX Entertainment Exec David Madden

David Madden, who served as the president of entertainment for the FOX broadcast network since 2014, has been named president of original programming for AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios.

Madden will report to Charlie Collier, the president of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios. Madden will start later this month and will be based in AMC’s Los Angeles office, where he will work closely with Susie Fitzgerald, the executive VP of scripted programming for AMC and SundanceTV; Kristin Jones, the senior VP of international programming development, acquisitions and co-productions for AMC and SundanceTV; and Eliot Goldberg, the senior VP of nonfiction and alternative programming for AMC and SundanceTV, and their teams.

“David Madden is a terrific, thoughtful person and a proven, tested executive. He’s known broadly not just for his leadership but also for developing and producing original programming alongside some of our industry’s most outstanding talent,” Collier said. “His rare and noteworthy success in this industry speaks for itself. He will have an immediate impact across our AMC and SundanceTV senior management team and, notably, our AMC Studios business as it continues to play an increasingly significant role for our networks and well beyond. It is exciting to add one of the key executives behind such iconic television series as The Shield, The Americans, The Killing and so many others to a talented team that already helped build and nurture content as diverse and successful as Mad Men, Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead, Into the Badlands, Top of the Lake and Talking Dead, to name a few. I look forward to working with David and his team to define our next chapter of bold, original storytelling.”

“While I’m enormously grateful for my 17 years at Fox and proud of everything we accomplished at the network and the cable studio, I just landed my dream job,” Madden said. “The opportunity to play a leadership role at networks like AMC and SundanceTV, which live at the very highest end of television content, and at a growing studio operation, is the culmination of everything I’ve done to date in my career and something I could not pass up. I’m proud to immediately inherit a roster of some of the most acclaimed and popular shows on television, and to endeavor to find and develop new ones with such a gifted group of executives, led by Charlie Collier, whom I have worked with and admired over the years. We have a chance to nurture the next generation of outstanding AMC and SundanceTV programming, while also building AMC Studios into a preeminent home for creative talent, a place that truly puts writers and their visions first, and a supplier of quality programming across our company and beyond it.”